Sentences with phrase «for human civilization»

It will be as important for human civilization as the discovery of fire.

But how much heating and added CO2 is safe for human civilization remains a judgment call.

The danger of climate change for human civilization and possibly the human species comes not from ice or heat.

If correct, it's a death sentence for human civilization.

The forward journey for human civilization will be difficult and dangerous, but it is now clear that we will ultimately prevail.

However, if the ice sheet melted entirely, sea levels would rise by more than 7 meters, with obvious and severe consequences for human civilization.

Just last month, he called it a «fundamental existential risk for human civilization,» prompting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to publicly disagree.

We need to move towards an educational paradigm that promotes an «ocean model of civilisation»: a metaphor for human civilization conceived as a whole, like an ocean into which different rivers flow and add depth.

The installation of Black Friday will be paired with The Future was Desert, Parts 1 & 2 (2016), a two - channel video that pays homage to the desert as a harsh fictional landscape, serving as an impending site for human civilization.

Also, I would contend that some of the warming scenarios Lovelock has painted hold equally grim prospects for human civilization and are more probable.

Stocks follow a pattern of a random walk, but over the past several hundred years (admittedly an atypical period for human civilization), they have followed a random walk with a slight upward trend.

David Suzuki, award - winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster: 1990 quote: «More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.»

«Warmer periods are called optima because for human civilization, and much of nature, warm is better than cold,» writes Michael Hart in Hubris: The Troubling Science, Economics, and Politics of Climate Change (Kindle location 3197).

We must not be deterred by our vulnerability; we must embrace it and allow it to propel us forward to chart a new course for human civilization.

He argued that using Canadian tar sands — which he called some of the «dirtiest oil on the planet» — would «make it much less likely for human civilization to succeed in meeting» that goal of leaving oil and other fossil fuels untapped.

His book Assault on Reason — published in April 2007 — stated that: «Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several «tipping points» that could — within as little as ten years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage of the planet's habitability for human civilization.»

And the Little Ice Age was a time of great trial for human civilization.»

For you, there is nothing that god nor the bible could say that would be immoral, no matter how ruinous it would be for human civilization.

I welcome this widening awareness as a divine intervention, a warning and a signal, possibly a life - and - death «last chance» for human civilization.

This trivialization of nuclear concerns was a misreading of the across - the - board struggle taking place with issues of life and death, of the widespread sense that this may be the «last chance» for human civilization.